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no-cheating  ·  3695 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Becoming a vegan. Where to start?

If we are just another animal is more a philosophic kind of question I don't aspire to answer. Still it's easy to see that we are an animal and we have a lot in common with them. And even if you consider human suffering more important than animals', consider the amounts. There are around 60 billions land animals killed every year, that is 10 times more there are people living. Not every human on Earth is suffering dramatic conditions, while more than 90% of those animals do.





user-inactivated  ·  3695 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We are animals, to be sure. I disagree on the idea that that gives us the same worth as all other species. I would argue that any number of animals suffering does not have the same worth as human suffering.

no-cheating  ·  3694 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Do you mean to imply that one human suffering will always be worth than any number of animal suffering? That would make animal suffering worthless forever.

user-inactivated  ·  3694 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't think that would make animal suffering worthless, just that it would be worth less.